Introduction to PHP PDO PHP is an open-source general-purpose scripting language, which is widely used for creating dynamic and interactive web pages. PHP can access a large range of relational database management systems such as MYSQL, SQLite, and PostgreSQL. The PHP 5.1 version offered a new database connection abstraction library, which is PHP Data Objects (PDO).
What is PDO? PDO refers to PHP Data Object, which is a PHP extension that defines a lightweight and consistent interface for accessing a database in PHP. It is a set of PHP extensions which provide a core PDO class and database-specific driver. Each database driver can expose database-specific features as a regular extension function that implements the PDO interface.